Monday, December 21

Homework check: Double Entry Journals on independent reading.
Amnesty Announcement. (No regular reading log due day after break).

Sam presented her short story; class commented on the writing.
Groups shared DEJs on independent reading, and chose exemplars of each.
Shared exemplars with the class.

DUE DATES

MONDAY, January 4: Bank/amnesty logs accepted: 1 past log can be submitted w/o penalty on the Monday after break; up to 2 future logs can be banked.
MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Friday, December 18

Homework check: Double Entry Journals on Lamott.

Writers' Groups.
Groups shared DEJs and drafts, chose exemplars of each.
Shared exemplars with the class.
(Sam S. will present her piece again on Monday.)

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18: DEJ with a note on "Character" and on "Plot" in Bird by Bird (44--63).  Have a draft ready to share with your group!

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Thursday, December 17

Reminder re: Friday's deadlines, need to review dialog mechanics.

Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18: DEJ with a note on "Character" and on "Plot" in Bird by Bird (44--63).  Have a draft ready to share with your group!

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Wednesday, December 16

Montana shared a poem from last week; discussed her process.
Writer's challenge: genre twist! (This is optional)
Reminder re: Friday's deadlines, need to review dialog mechanics.
Returned graded rough drafts.

Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18: DEJ with a note on "Character" and on "Plot" in Bird by Bird (44--63).  Have a draft ready to share with your group!

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Tuesday, December 15

Lesson taught by a sub in Ms. Bishop's absence; short class due to early release schedule.

Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18: DEJ with a note on "Character" and on "Plot" in Bird by Bird (44--63).  Have a draft ready to share with your group!

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Monday, December 14

Lesson taught by a sub in Ms. Bishop's absence.
COLLECTED reading logs.
Students shared independent reading DEJs.
COLLECTED DEJs.
Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18: DEJ with a note on "Character" and on "Plot" in Bird by Bird (44--63).  Have a draft ready to share with your group!

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Friday, December 11

Shared drafts in Writers' groups.

Writers' Workshop.  Rough drafts due for a grade today.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ with a note on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird (64--79).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11: Rough drafts due for a grade; share through Google Docs.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Thursday, December 10

Groups shared Lamott DEJs.
COLLECTED DEJs.

Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ with a note on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird (64--79).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11: Rough drafts due for a grade; share through Google Docs.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Wednesday, December 9

Homework check: Anne Lamott DEJs. (Owing to absences, we will hold the DEJs to share until tomorrow.)

Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ with a note on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird (64--79).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11: Rough drafts due for a grade; share through Google Docs.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Tuesday, December 8

Writers' Workshop.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ with a note on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird (64--79).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11: Rough drafts due for a grade; share through Google Docs.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Monday, December 7

Homework check: DEJs.
COLLECTED reading logs.
Writer's Groups shared DEJs.
Presented exemplars and stories from last week's writing groups.
COLLECTED DEJs.

REMINDER: For Friday, December 11, share a rough draft (any genre, but fiction with dialog encouraged) with Ms. Bishop for a grade.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ with a note on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird (64--79).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11: Rough drafts due for a grade; share through Google Docs.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Friday, December 4

NEW ASSIGNMENT: Rough draft for a grade. Due next Friday.

Writer's Groups met, shared drafts and models, and chose exemplars to present.
First model shared with the class; we'll continue presentations on Monday.

REMINDER: For Friday, December 11, share a rough draft (any genre, but fiction with dialog encouraged) with Ms. Bishop for a grade.

DUE DATES

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7: Reading logs and DEJs on independent reading are due at the beginning of class.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ with a note on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird (64--79).
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11: Rough drafts due for a grade; share through Google Docs.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Thursday, December 3

NEW ASSIGNMENT: Read "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Lamott's Bird by Bird (64--79) and create a note on a DEJ for each. Due next Wednesday.

Writer's Workshop.

REMINDER: For Friday, December 4, write a draft that includes dialog to share with your writing group.  In addition, find a model that makes use of dialog, and upload it, and your comments on it, to the Private Writing Zone.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: Drafts with dialog should be published to share with group (any genre). Share a model of writing which includes dialog to the Private Writing Zone with your comments.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Wednesday, December 2

NEW ASSIGNMENT: Read "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Lamott's Bird by Bird (64--79) and create a note on a DEJ for each. Due next Wednesday.

Writer's Workshop.

REMINDER: For Friday, December 4, write a draft that includes dialog to share with your writing group.  In addition, find a model that makes use of dialog, and upload it, and your comments on it, to the Private Writing Zone.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: Drafts with dialog should be published to share with group (any genre). Share a model of writing which includes dialog to the Private Writing Zone with your comments.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: DEJ on "Dialog" and "Set Design" in Bird by Bird.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.

Tuesday, December 1

Writer's Workshop.

REMINDER: For Friday, December 4, write a draft that includes dialog to share with your writing group.  In addition, find a model that makes use of dialog, and upload it, and your comments on it, to the Private Writing Zone.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: Drafts with dialog should be published to share with group (any genre). 
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: Share a model of writing which includes dialog to the Private Writing Zone with your comments.

MONDAYS: Weekly reading logs, DEJs on independent reading.
THURSDAYS: Publish drafts for writers' groups on Friday.
FRIDAYS: Weekly writers' groups.